corps
English[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From French corps d'armée (literally “army body”), from Latin corpus (“body”). Doublet of corpse and corpus. See also English riff.
Pronunciation[edit]
- Singular
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: kô, IPA(key): /kɔː/
- (General American) enPR: kôr, IPA(key): /kɔɹ/
- (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: kōr, IPA(key): /ko(ː)ɹ/
- (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA(key): /koə/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
- Homophones: core, cor; caw (non-rhotic accents with the horse-hoarse merger)
- Plural
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: kôz, IPA(key): /kɔːz/
- (General American) enPR: kôrz, IPA(key): /kɔɹz/
- (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: kōrz, IPA(key): /ko(ː)ɹz/
- (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA(key): /koəz/
- Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)z
- Homophone: cores; cause, caws (non-rhotic accents with the horse-hoarse merger)
Noun[edit]
corps (plural corps)
- (military) A battlefield formation composed of two or more divisions.
- An organized group of people united by a common purpose.
- diplomatic corps
- White House press corps
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Etymology 2[edit]
Noun[edit]
corps
Anagrams[edit]
Bourguignon[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
corps m (plural corps)
Dutch[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from French corps, from Middle French cors, from Old French cors, from Latin corpus. Doublet of corpus.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
corps n (plural corpsen or corpora, diminutive corpsje n)
- student society, especially a traditional and hierarchical one
- Superseded spelling of korps.
Usage notes[edit]
Traditional student societies tend to prescribe the plural corpora, in regular language the plural corpsen is more common.
Synonyms[edit]
- studentencorps
- natie (historical)
Derived terms[edit]
French[edit]
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Etymology[edit]
From Middle French cors, from Old French cors, inherited from Latin corpus (“body”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱrep-. The p was added back to reflect the Latin etymology. Doublet of corpus.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
corps m (plural corps)
- body
- (mathematics) field (in abstract algebra)
- (military) corps
Derived terms[edit]
- à bras-le-corps
- à corps perdu
- à son corps défendant
- avoir le diable au corps
- chevillé au corps
- corporation
- corporel
- corps calleux
- corps céleste
- corps composé
- corps consulaire
- corps de ballet
- corps de métier
- corps et âme
- corps étranger
- corps simple
- corser
- corset
- esprit de corps
- garde du corps
- incorporer
- linge de corps
- pleurer toutes les larmes de son corps
- prendre corps
- tenir au corps
- tricot de corps
Descendants[edit]
- Karipúna Creole French: kó
- → Danish: korps
- → English: corps
- → Dutch: corps, korps
- → German: Korps
- → Norwegian Bokmål: korps
- → Norwegian Nynorsk: korps
- → Swedish: kår
Further reading[edit]
- “corps” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams[edit]
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *krep-
- English terms derived from French
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- en:Military
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- en:Collectives
- Bourguignon terms inherited from Latin
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- Bourguignon masculine nouns
- Dutch terms borrowed from French
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- nl:Education
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- French terms inherited from Middle French
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- French terms derived from Latin
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- fr:Body
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- fr:Military